Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3) Updated: 2009-02-04 Local index
wctob - try to represent a wide character as a single byte
int wctob(wint_t c);
function tests whether
the multibyte representation of the
wide character c, starting in the initial state, consists of a single
If so, it is returned as an
Never use this function.
It cannot help you in writing internationalized
Internationalized programs must never distinguish single-byte and
function returns the single-byte representation of c,
if it exists, of EOF otherwise.
The behavior of
depends on the
category of the
This function should never be used.
Internationalized programs must never
distinguish single-byte and multibyte characters.
Use the function
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